About Nhys Glover:
Did you discover Romance in the form of a ratty old copy of a Mills and Boon while on holiday at ten years of age? Did you then race home to start penning (actually pencilling) your own Romances in school exercise books when I should have been out playing? Did you have boyfriends and maybe even a husband who told you Romance was unrealistic rubbish because men weren’t like that? And, despite their jokes and eye-rolls, did you keep reading and writing so you got your Happy Ever After? If so, you must be Nhys Glover’s doppelganger, because that’s exactly how she got started as a writer.
Now that her real life has become boring (thank goodness) and she’s finally ditched ‘real’ men, she fills her time writing exciting, romantic adventures that other people seem to love to read. That's if the quarter of a million downloaded copies of her books is anything to go by. Her hope is that one day some girl picks up one of her books (when they’re over eighteen, of course, because her Romances tend to sizzle) and becomes hooked like she did, so the cycle of Romance continues into the next generation. Surely by then ‘real’ men will have learned to be more like the heroes in our rubbishy Romances. The romantic in Nhys believes it just may happen.

What inspires you to write?
Happy Ever Afters. I'm addicted to them. I write like a fiend to get to the end so I can get my fix.

Tell us about your writing process.
I get my stories two ways. The first is when I pose a question and then wait for the answer. Like when I started my New Atlantis series I asked how could it be possible to get your twenty year old body back and keep all the wisdom and experience you've gained over your life? The answer comes through and I'm racing to find out the problems that might occur and how they will be resolved.
The second way I get stories is from my dreams. This can be very annoying if I'm in the middle of a book or a series and the new story is a complete break from what I'm doing. I've literally had to stop one book to get the new one down, it can be just so obsessive.
My writing practice is simple. I don't have to be in the mood because I'm always in the mood. I sit down and start writing, and when my body is too sore to keep going I stop for the day. The next day I edit what I wrote, because the first draft is always awful, and then spend the rest of the day getting more down. I rarely know what comes next, I have a general idea about my characters and I do a lot of research along the way, especially with my historical romances, But I mostly just love watching how my characters develop and become real as the story unfolds. I've had secondary characters step up and totally hijack a book, like young Bart did in 'The Key'. He wanted the heroine and the supposed hero just couldn't compete. I love it when that happens. It keeps my books fresh.

How do you develop your characters?
My characters start in much the way real contact with people occurs. You meet them, you get a sense of what they're like from their appearance, and then you learn about them as they interact with each other and the events as they unfold. I never know what a character will say or do until they do it, and sometimes I laugh out loud when they surprise me with a funny quip or a decision that's totally unexpected. It is in those moments that they impress on me how real they are. Sometimes I think my characters are more real than the 'real' people in my life.

Who are your favorite authors?
I have had a lot of favorite authors over the years. Diana Gabaldon stands out because Jamie has to be the best hero ever written. I like smart mouthed heroines (mine never are for some reason) so AJ AAlto, and Anne Charles are great, but I also like 'nice' heroines like Colleen Helme's Shelby Nicolls. I prefer women authors to men because even in thrillers women tend to focus on people as much as the story. To me the people are why I read, the story is always secondary, the vehicle by which I get to learn more about the characters.

Ambrosia Severn is a talented young orthopedic surgeon, and was about to branch off in an exciting new direction in the field of limb replacement, when she made that one fateful mistake—she took a seacoast vacation. The man who had watched her for fifteen years made sure she was dead—but only to the world. Niven is a descendant of Quen star-lords stranded on Earth thousands of years ago. His original mission directive was simple: Protect the beautiful and talented young doctor. He re-wrote the script according to his heart’s desire and today Amy is very much alive among the people whose ancestors came down from the stars. She is grateful to Niven’s kinfolk for offering her refuge when she most needed it, but she also thinks they’ve been hiding their homeland long enough. Especially now, when Niven’s two sons keep her busy, she doesn’t want them to grow up in the isolation of the elite island society. However, there is a difference between a measured exposure of the Island, and ripping off its cloaking screen. But that’s precisely what Persis, the ruthless siren wants to do—and in the process destroy the world that’s hosted her ancestors.

About Sai Marie Johnson:
Sai Marie is an author, creative writer, and concept creator. She resides in the Great Pacific Northwest where she enjoys the flora, fauna, action and adventure that bred the Pioneer Spirit. With a heart for advocacy, animals, the environment, and great imagination she is sure to capture your attention with something for everyone.

What inspires you to write?
Many things inspire me to write, but mostly, it's the place I was conceived, born and half-way raised up (I moved to the South at age 11.) Lots of things inspire me, the news, events around me and ideas that spring up from my surroundings. I'm a Native Oregonian and there's a fact everyone knows about our majestic state, it's deeply inspiring. I would recommend all people with elaborate imaginations visit my home state to truly experience what inspires me.

Tell us about your writing process.
I'm a little bit of everything. Some stories (I ghostwrite also) are written based on an outline, others are simply by the pants. It entirely depends on the story. One of my best rated novels was written pantser style while another took me nearly ten years to finish. It just depends. For my clients and stories I have deadlines on though, I typically work off an outline.

How do you develop your characters?
Some characters are just themselves. What I mean by this is that they present to you their story, their desires, their personality. Everything about them is already as it should be and their story just takes you by possession and you write it out. This happened with one particular heroine of mine, Ivanka "Ivy" Jessup. Ivy's story was like a movie in my head, each line of dialogue murmured by the characters speaking. Each detail was described as I "saw" it in my head and yes, Ivy did sort of speak to me, but not directly. It was more like being a silent witness to her tale. But not every story works this way. Like people, they're all different.

The Council is the governing Coven over the Land of Five, a region entirely inhabited—and split apart—by witches with varying powers. Lilith Lace, a witch thought to be born powerless, happily resides in Ignis, the Coven of Fire, until she suddenly develops telekinesis, an ability only seen in some witches born in Mentis, the Coven of the Mind. When The Council finds out about her odd development, she’s taken under their wing and is finally told the truth—everything she’s learned about the Land of Five, herself included, have been nothing but lies.

Three temple maidens are running for their lives. The bandits have suddenly sprung from their hiding among the mountain pass to ambush the maidens’ caravan. As the temple maiden’s security is quickly being killed all around them, each knows that at least one of them must survive to get to the Dream Oracle. They must warn her of a Supreme Overlord named Kronos. The temple maidens have information that Kronos plans to kill the Dream Oracle and all with her in order to use their powers for conquering the temple maidens’ planets and the universe. Time is running out for the people of Syntaurus and the universe if Kronos can’t be stopped.

Tomas Dyrease, the newly made Earl of Irvaine and the village of Wisenvale, owes his good fortune to his king and the recent civil war. When his benefactor demands Tomas marry the cousin of a noble, he obeys. However, no one warned him that she wasn’t a typical noblewoman.

Brielle Solarius struggles to keep her village from starvation under the new Lord Wisten, her cousin. The men rode off to war and never returned. The remaining women and children face a dire winter if they do not find a solution soon. When she learns her cousin sold her into marriage to save his life, she isn’t surprised. However, she is taken aback by Lord Irvaine’s unpolished ways. Was this man a noble or a foot soldier?

Bound by the words of their vows, they face a rough future. They must forge a marriage while battling betrayal, accusations of treason, and villains from the past. Survival depends on their precarious trust in each other. Failure could mean death.

There has been unrest among the people for over six hundred years. No one recalls what started the fighting, few recall the proper order of events. Everyone feels the effects of the unrest. Short lived queens and weak magic mean that any newcomer is viewed as a rival, that warriors must defend queens they can barely stand in order to protect the common people.

Aren knew when she begged to go that being finished at the palace was dangerous. Every lady is finished at court, no matter her rank or the worth of her title, and it was the opportunity to escape that Aren had been waiting for. Her plan was simple, keep her head down until her eighteenth birthday and then quietly slip away.

Av had spent almost a decade protecting Em, who he knows isn’t good for his family or the people. But she’s the only one who can hold the throne, a landscape magic which has become absolutely necessary for life to continue. Without a queen sitting the throne the land would fail and the common folk would suffer.a With Em on the throne at least, a majority of the people live regular lives.

Despite her best attempts, Aren finds herself in Av’s sights after she takes ill. The warrior’s response to her is an instinctive reaction Aren hadn’t counted on. Aren knows little about warriors, less about magic, and absolutely nothing about the throne.

Devoted to one another, Adryel and Ramael must each choose a side in the brewing war over the creation of humanity: God desires to breathe life into his new creation, but Lucifer is intent upon sabotage.

Ramael faithfully serves as second in command of the Army of Heaven; his loyalty never waivers. Adryel—swayed by Lucifer’s arguments—casts her lot in with the rebelling archangel. Leaving Ramael and all else she holds dear, Adryel wages war with Lucifer and refuses to renounce him. Finding herself exiled to Hell, she furthers her efforts in support of the cause by tempting the newly created humans to embrace Lucifer’s persuasion.

Despite the battle lines, Adryel yearns to tell Ramael she loves him still. But how could he ever return her love when she has done more to thwart God’s plans than all the other fallen angels combined?

As Heaven divides and hell arises, Adryel and Ramael must choose sides in the brewing war over the creation of humanity.

On the run from her old flame’s organized crime family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana, and finds a new boyfriend. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package with a spider concealed inside, she worries that the crime family has found her. Life takes an even more bizarre turn when she seems to be not only immune to the spider venom, but also surrounded by a sinister group of people using spiders to incapacitate their prey. Even her new boyfriend starts acting suspiciously. Just who can she trust?
Then to make matters worse Sara’s twenty-fifth birthday approaches, and her dark heritage begins to emerge. She is forced to make a life-or-death decision. And somehow, she must find a way to deal with the crime family.

300 years ago, the people dethroned their king and queen to prevent another tyranny. Now instead, the people nominate a State Head every three years and Altarn is the first female to hold the position. She’s used to tolerating the biases of men but Kaelin, the State Head of his territory, has declared her incompetent and has even, according to Altarn, threatened to steal her land – she believes he wants to make himself king. Believing she must “dethrone” Kaelin, Altarn rides to her last ally to ask for aid in the war against Kaelin she knows is coming. But in her absence an army launches an attack… and it’s not Kaelin’s.

Taking advantage of the startling situation, Kaelin kidnaps Altarn so he can take her land without her in the way. Soon realizing he needs her help to fight this army instead, he releases her and, since Altarn’s army is too small to win the war alone, she is forced to accept his help, but payment for his help will be her land. No one believes Kaelin is secretly trying to make himself king, so after the battle is won, alone in her knowledge and lacking allies, Altarn must become the War Queen of legend to dethrone another king… though she unexpectedly dethrones his heart instead.